Duron pricing, ULV Athlon?

Aside from what I found to be a disappointing press release about the .13 micron mobile Athlon XP, there were a couple of additional items of interest from AMD today. First, they've quietly reduced the pricing of their Duron processors:

Secondly, the press release states:In addition, a low power version of the mobile AMD Athlon XP processor, with a new micro Pin Grid Array (uPGA) packaging, is sampling now and expected to enable AMD to address the thin-and-light notebook market.

This gives us an indication that there will be a special Low-Voltage or Ultra-Low-Voltage (using Intel's terms) mobile Athlon processor. We are left to speculate on the power consumption and MHz ratings, but it is supposedly sampling now. Transmeta will soon be facing competition from Intel and AMD in the low-voltage PC segment.

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Oh?(4:37pm EST Wed Apr 17 2002)“Transmeta will soon be facing competition from Intel and AMD in their low-voltage PC segment.”

Wait… Transmets's still in business? – by Want ULV? Go PPC

Transmeta what?(5:19pm EST Wed Apr 17 2002)PPC? What a crock. I remember a true pocket PC, ran win xp and had a floppy/cd drive. Now, what i was going to say:

ULV processors are all a bunch of crocks. A 650 celeron is selling now, as a true retail item, but is special because it's ultra low voltage. Why not re-market the k6-2 and shrink it, after all, it's ultra low voltage, and uses the same tech as the celeron. – by Warplex

Re: warplex(7:01pm EST Wed Apr 17 2002)>>>PPC? What a crock

Yep, it sure sucks being able to squeeze 6 hours of battery life out of a CPU that doesn't need some form or another of “power scaling” thus running on average like a CPU of 2/3 the speed…